Mixed messages

New albums reveal much about two top Christian musicians | Arsenio Orteza

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Getting to the heart of Stockholm Syndrome (INO), the latest album by the former Caedmon's Call member and outspokenly liberal Christian Derek Webb, is no easy task.

For one thing, the proliferation of "syndromes" in our hyper-therapeutic times will have some listeners needing to be reminded that the "Stockholm" variety refers to a hostage's pathologically sympathetic identification with his captor—and that while in typical Contemporary Christian Music, the captor is Satan (or the world or the flesh) and the hostage the human soul, Stockholm Syndrome is hardly typical. Atop an electronically mashed-up mosaic of several decades' worth of pop styles, Webb lends his Bono-esque voice to lyrics rooted in the awareness that rendering unto Caesar what is Caesar's and unto God what is God's is not always easy.

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